I have been enjoying the Arboretum for more than 60 years. I grew up on South St. in JP near the foot of the Arborway, just a few minutes walk from the Arboretum’s Forest Hills Gate. My family went there frequently, in all 4 seasons. As I got older I also went there with friends, girlfriends, or alone. I’ve walked there, run there, played sports there (which I realize was against the rules!), read and wrote there, brought my own sons there, etc. My high school x-country team even used the Arboretum as one of our practice sites. My siblings and I collected leaves for school projects there, we went there on Lilac Sunday for years and years, we tobogganed down Bussey Hill, we skated on one of the Ponds, my father took photos of us there on Easter Sunday wearing our new Easter outfits. One of the treats I remember looking forward to as a child, besides Lilac Sunday, was the time of year when the Bonsai gardens would be open to the public. I live on the South Shore now but still visit the Arboretum several times a year, and plan to visit even more often, and the Bonsais are still one of my favorite things, along with the enormous cork trees, the white birch, the views from the tops of Bussey Hill and Peter’s Hill, the tranquility of Hemlock Hill, the stone bench built into the side of the small knoll near the Bradley Rosaceous Gardens, and on and on. I have 60 years of memories from the Arnold Arboretum and I cherish them all.